SC1187

CSA #12a (AD) Milky Blue (margin touches on three sides) with a partial strike of the BLUE Columbia SC CDS (date not fully apparent). Full Military Address to Lieut William H. Coit, Gardens Battery, Hoods Division, Longstreets Corps, Richmond, Va. The unit in the address was the SC Palmetto Light Artillery Battery commanded by Capt Hugh R. Garden. When the cover reached Richmond, it was apparently noted by a postal clerk that the stamp was inadequately canceled by the partial Columbia SC postmark. The stamp was therefore obliterated by the Richmond, Va Large Grid which ties the stamp and prevents the stamp from being reused. The Richmond large grid was a prewar mark that was used only very infrequently as an obliterator during the Confederate period. Peter Powell in his 1987 book on CSA Richmond postmarks noted that there are only a very few covers (he recorded only two but that number is somewhere around six or seven now) where this grid appears canceling a CSA general issue stamp. There are also a few other covers where the grid was used to obliterate an incorrectly struck rate mark. The cover has a small reduction at the left where opened just into a small part of the address, and part of a back side flap is missing. The cover has an otherwise Very Fine appearance and is one of the very few covers known with the Richmond, Va large grid canceling a CSA general issue stamp. Ex-Randy Neil Exhibit.

$900.00

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